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"Sleepless in Gaza... and Jerusalem" (21 minutes)
Day 70: Join Ala' to the inside of Rachel's Tomb that was cut off of Bethlehem through the Wall of Separation and a passage with high walls that keep the Palestinians out. She enters after speaking Hebrew to the guards who only allow Israelis and tourists in. Women who have difficulties in their pregnancy go to Rachel's Tomb to get blessed because it is believed that Rachel had died after a difficult pregnancy and was buried there. See the dome of Bilal Ben Hassan mosque which is next to the Islamic graveyard and which the Israelis have taken over. Palestinians have not been allowed in that mosque since 1967.In Gaza, meet Mu'men, the famous photographer on a wheelchair. Why does he like to take photos at the old English Cemetery? See the final resting place of the allied army soldiers who fell in the war of 1914 - 1918.
"A Really Inconvenient Truth" (75 minutes)
Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth" woke the world up to the dangers of global warming. But, argues Joel Kovel, while we should be grateful to Gore for sounding the alarm, we also need to go far beyond his reading of the causes of this crisis and of what needs to be done about it.
"Let the Show Begin" (15 minutes)
This film documents a 5 day international short film festival held in Baghdad in extremely difficult circumstances in September 2005. The young organizers of the event are determined to do something constructive and to assert a sense of creativity in a situation where daily violence traumatizes and paralyzes people.
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